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How to allow unauthorised read access to GitHub packages maven repository? #26634

Answered by jcansdale
mstyura asked this question in Packages
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For example, if I clone some project which rely on dependencies hosted on GitHub Packages maven repo I’ll fail to compile it. Will have to investigate what the heck is going on. Figure out that I need to register on GitHub. Then generate token. Store in in ~/.m2/settings.xml . And only then the project might compile.

There are a few thing you can do to make this a little less painful.

  1. Create a settings.xml file at the root of your repository
  2. Create a .mvn/maven.config file that contains -s settings.xml
  3. Generate a PAT with just the read:packages scope

If your repository is private, you can place the PAT directly in your settings.xml file. If your repository is public, you can’t push t…

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